King of Ska - The Ska Singles Collection - Desmond Dekker (Record Store Day June 2021)

It's staggering to believe that Desmond Dekker passed away 15 years ago. Today would have been his birthday had he still been alive. As a wee tribute to his memory I thought I would post this today. Now, 'King of Ska' was an actual release by Dekker back in 1991 on Trojan Records so we have to be careful not to mix up this new album that was released for Record Store Day in June this year seeing that they are two totally diffrent albums.

This one is a reproduction of the first ten 7" singles that established Desmond Dekker as a Jamaican superstar. All put out on Beverley's Records that were released between 1963-66 and this Special Release was to celebrate what would have been his 80th Birthday. This new collection is also released on Trojan Records. In the USA it was apprently limited to only 500 Copies. I don't know if it was limited in the UK.

Seeing that there are twenty tracks covering the ten 7" Singles I will just post the A-sides as I am pretty sure you will be able to track down the B-sides on some streaming platform somewhere.

A-side: Honour Your Mother & Father

A-side: Happy Birthday Jamaica

A-side: Parents

A-Side: Dracula

A-side: Jeserene

A-side: King of Ska

A-side: Get Up Adina

A-side: It Was Only A Dream

A-side: Mount Zion

A-side: Soldiering

Enjoy.